About Me

I'm the school librarian at G.S. Lakie Middle School. As you can see - me, reading and comfy chairs go way back. I still enjoy Asterix and many other graphic novels. My main reason for blogging is for reviewing books for the students and anyone else that might be interested in YA literature.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Impossible



Impossible by Nancy Werlin

Well, for those of you that have been waiting for the next great read, comparable to Twilight - wait no longer.

Impossible was delicious. Weaving threads of a folksong, along with a mysterious curse linked to an impossible world / fairytale, and a modern day romance to make a beautiful, intricate, unforgettable story. I got totally caught up in the story.

Here's the write up-

Inspired by the ballad "Scarborough Fair," this riveting novel combines suspense, fantasy, and romance for an intensely page-turning and masterfully original tale. Lucy Scarborough is seventeen when she discovers that the women of her family have been cursed through the generations, forced to attempt three seemingly impossible tasks or fall into madness upon their child's birth. Unless she can complete these tasks, Lucy will go mad, just like her mother and all the Scarborough women before her. But Lucy is the first girl who won't be alone when she attempts the list. She has her fiercely protective foster parents and her childhood friend Zach beside her. As they struggle to make sense of the puzzle in the ballad and play by the dangerously important rules, time is slipping away and Lucy's fate hangs in a balance. Do they have love and strength enough to overcome an age-old evil?


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